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...acclaim with a series of Bay Area schools. In 1956 he struck into the international field, won a State Department commission to build the Thailand embassy. His "floating pagoda" design (provided that Congress authorizes funds) will match the mood of Bangkok's temples as it rises airily on slender white stilts...
Though 68 and rumored in poor health, Menzies on the stump was brimming with energy, showing himself by turns genial, scornful and witty. Since 1961 his government had balanced on the razor edge of a slender majority of two in Australia's House of Representatives. By calling national elections a year earlier than legally required, he hoped that Australia's current prosperity would carry him to victory. Unemployment is down to a negligible 2%, exports are up, car registrations have increased 100,000 over the first half of this year...
...point, when Boston blew a 14-point lead in the last few minutes of play. Last week the Celtics wreaked a special vengeance on the Los Angeles Lakers, the same team that had battled them on almost equal terms through six games in last season's championship playoffs. Slender Sam Jones poured in 14 points in the first quarter, and Boston Coach Red Auerbach cleared his bench. But even the substitutes were merciless: all twelve men wound up in the scoring column, and the Celtics clobbered the Lakers 114-78. Before the week was out, they...
...Slender Markets. Montecatini has been a dazzling postwar success story, rising from war-torn rubble to branch into chemicals, plastics, fertilizers, paints and synthetic fibers and to set up plants in the U.S., Spain and The Netherlands. But like so many other European companies in the postwar period, its growth has been financed by perilous means. With not nearly enough loan money available in Europe's slender capital markets, many firms have tried to finance their rapid expansion with short-term borrowings. Montecatini has been borrowing Eurodollars-U.S. currency that circulates freely among European banks and industry without...
First, the maidens, each dressed in the strange, even bizarre, attire appropriate to the age group. Tall, slender, yet well built and comely, they exhuded an air of vibrant sexuality. Each had obviously spent considerable time and money in bringing her appearance to the pitch of perfection. Eyes were carefully shaded with "kohl" (antimony), skins painted and bodies held taut and provocative within the stresses of the short little kilts and tightly fitted "matari" (little short jackets designed to display the lower half of the bosom...